England, 1381 - The year of the Peasants’ Revolt.
England is in a state of turmoil. The peasants are marching on London in protest against the Poll Tax. The tax is unfair and they cannot... More > afford to pay it.
9 year old Jack lives in an Essex village. His father Thomas, a simple baker, emerges as one of the leaders of the Revolt, and leaves Jack and his family to join the rebels in London.
What does Thomas say when he meets the boy king, Richard II? How does he keep the troublesome Wat Tyler in check and avoid disaster? Matters come to a head when the king’s soldiers are sent in. Will Jack ever see his father again?
“The Seekers of Justice” is a compelling and moving story about one of the defining moments in English history. The book is charmingly illustrated throughout.< Less

A peasant fed up with his poor life runs off in search of a better way, a prince who is exiled following his father's murder. This tale of dual dreams comes together as an epic struggle to regain... More > the throne from the evil forces that have taken over Tyber while trying to stay alive for a newfound love along the way for one and an ancient flame rekindled for the other. Can the pair regain the throne? Will their loves be successful? What truths about themselves will they discover?< Less

A peasant fed up with his poor life runs off in search of a better way, a prince who is exiled following his father's murder. This tale of dual dreams comes together as an epic struggle to regain... More > the throne from the evil forces that have taken over Tyber while trying to stay alive for a newfound love along the way for one and an ancient flame rekindled for the other. Can the pair regain the throne? Will their loves be successful? What truths about themselves will they discover?< Less

Pride of serfs
History, in dreams, delving into human rights and homosexual rights oppression. Culminates in gay pride.
Two homosexual lads fight against Communist oppression in the 1956 Uprising... More >
of Hungary. They have to flee from the downfall.
As refugees they are given help and settle in Pitsea, Essex.
There they are reminded of past oppressions, past rebellions.< Less

An influential leader of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, John Ball paid the ultimate price for his outspoken support for the common people. He was hung, drawn and quartered in front of King Richard II... More > on 15 July 1381, according to the "Christian" laws then practised.
At the last major meeting of the Kentish rebels at Blackheath he preached his famous "communistic" sermon. "When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the Gentleman? From the beginning all men by nature were created alike, and our bondage or servitude came in by the unjust oppression of naughty men. For if God would have had any bondmen from the beginning, he would have appointed who should be bond, and who free. And therefore I exhort you to consider that now the time is come, appointed to us by God, in which ye may, if ye will, cast off the yoke of bondage, and recover liberty."
William Morris in his Dream brings the past alive and takes us back to those heroic days when the labouring poor stood up against the ruling landed aristocracy.< Less

Imagine yourself in a world where the Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople led to a revolution in what we now call mainland Greece. The society that arose out of that revolt is unlike any... More > other in Europe: pagan, libertine, consciously interdependent yet insistent on individual rights, the people of the Hellenic Commonwealth and Polity are a self-made experiment in self governance. Here you will meet, among others: Master Xenos, a great swordsman who teaches at the Red Warrior Skolo, a school like no other; his assistant, Spathos Nikos; and their newest student, Eleni Vlaportini, who has come to Athens to learn the way of the sword.
A Romance in the original sense of the word: a story about errantry and swordplay. An adventure set in the 13th century: love, sex and the way of the sword; and the coming of age of the greatest swordswoman in the Hellenic Commonwealth< Less

It's a striking feature of Protestantism that so few Protestants know anything about the founder of their religion. Martin Luther, the prophet of Protestant irrationalism, is one of the most... More > pathological figures in religious history. Would any sane person wish to subscribe to a religion whose founder declared: “Reason is the Devil’s greatest whore; by nature and in manner of being she is a noxious whore; she is a prostitute, the Devil’s appointed whore; whore eaten by scab and leprosy who ought to be trodden under foot and destroyed, she and her wisdom...Throw dung in her face to make her ugly. She is and she ought to be drowned in baptism...She would deserve, the wretch, to be banished to the filthiest place in the house, the toilet.”
Making extensive use of Luther's own words, the Pythagorean Illuminati, the oldest secret society in the world, have produced a polemical attack on the religion that has come to be most closely identified with the evils of Western capitalism.< Less

«Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens,... More > who had left Fougères in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up the little mountain of La Pélerine, half-way between Fougères and Ernée, a small town where travellers along that road are in the habit of resting. This company, divided into groups that were more or less numerous, presented a collection of such fantastic costumes and a mixture of individuals belonging to so many and diverse localities and professions that it will be well to describe their characteristic differences, in order to give to this history the vivid local coloring to which so much value is attached in these days, – though some critics do assert that it injures the representation of sentiments.»...
This famous historical novel of Honoré de Balzac is set in Brittany, 1799, during the royalist revolt against the Republic.< Less

Red, White, and Green (1901) by Herbert Hayens, is edited here with the full illustrations of the original.
Herbert Hayens is the author of A Captain of Irregulars, A vanished nation, A fighter in... More > green, An Emperor's Doom.
The Plot: Word of the popular uprising in France spread all over Europe. Liberals, inspired by the French revolt, demanded written constitutions, representative government, and greater civil liberties from authoritarian regimes. The governments hesitated, and popular revolts ensued. Urban workers and students allied with middle class liberals and peasants. As a result, monarchs gave in and granted almost anything requested.
The Austrian Empire saw its rebellion begin in Hungary, where nationalist Hungarians demanded national autonomy, full civil liberties, and universal suffrage. When the monarchy hesitated, students and workers took to the streets, and peasant revolts broke out in various parts of the Empire.< Less

If your name is Pancheri, you have thousands of cousins around the globe who all, like you, descend from one man, Panchero, who lived in northern Italy 700 years ago. In this book – and flowing... More > through your veins – is the story of a multibillionaire ancestor, a peasant revolt, a besieged castle, a witch trial, droit du seigneur, a “Trojan pig,” the Black Death, a priest drowned in holy water and much more – seven centuries of “Sex, Lies But No Videotape.”< Less

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